Monday 3 September 2007
10.00 Introduction

Mikkel Bogh (Rector, The Schools of Visual Arts, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts)

Thomas Söderqvist (Director, Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen)

10.20 Morning Session

Ingeborg Reichle (Research fellow, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin):
"Larger Than Life: The Use of Living Organisms in Contemporary Art"

Wolfgang Knapp (Lecturer, Institut für Kunst im Kontext, Universität der Künste, Berlin):
“Artists as Research Scientists; Science as Art? Interdisciplinary Approaches”

Steve Kurtz (Associate Professor, SUNY Buffalo, artist, member of Critical Arts Ensemble):
“Point of Intervention”

12.30
Lunch. Projection of Steve Kurtz’s film Marching Plague (17 minutes) in the hall.

13.30 Afternoon Session

Richard Wingate (Lecturer, UK Medical Research Council Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College, London):
“Exchange and (Sci)Art (What Art Tells Science About How Science Sees the Brain)”

Ben Fry (Research assistant, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, Mass):
"Computational Information Design and Genomic Cartography"

Ken Arnold (Head of Public Programmes, Wellcome Trust, London):
"Drawing on Science: Medicine, Art and Life at Wellcome Collection"

15.30
Coffee/tea

16.00 Keynote Address

James Elkins (E.C. Chadbourne Chair, Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago):
"Some Languages of Medical Semiotics: Thinking of Non-art Images Discursively"

Critical Art Ensemble’s film Marching Plague (USA/2006/17 min) will be shown during the day at the conference.

A new sound work by Jacob Kirkegaard commissioned for the conference will be presented at the Medical Museion, Bredgade 62. www.fonik.dk

www.ku.dk/satsning/biocampus/artandbiomedicine

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts is a higher arts education institution under the Ministry of Culture offering a six-year MFA programme.

information: http://www.kunstakademiet.dk

Art and Biomedicine: Beyond the Body is part funded by BioCampus, one of four research priority areas at the University of Copenhagen covering interdisciplinary research about the way in which biomedicine and biotechnology is developed, applied, regulated and understood in contemporary society.

Information: www.ku.dk/satsning/biocampus

The Medical Museion at the University of Copenhagen is a combined academic unit and medical museum with extensive collections. Our field is the history of health and disease
in a cultural perspective, with a focus on the material and iconographic culture of recent biomedicine.

Organiser: Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen

Venue: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Kongens Nytorv 1, Copenhagen.

Information: www.museion.ku.dk
blog: www.corporeality.net/museion